Food vs fuel

India must focus on rainfed farming

There was a time when it was said that the Indian budget was a gamble on the monsoons. That is not the case any more, with industrial production …

Unravelling the food mess

Reaching food to people who need it the most has remained one of the most stubborn problems in India. The public distribution system (PDS) is in …

Letters

WFP cuts ration to Mozambique

Protest for Kali river water

Rs 1,86,000 cr illusion

Andhra Pradesh’s Jalayagnam irrigation scheme unviable, contract-driven, says CAG draft report

Empty Promises

The high-level conference at Rome was called to find a way out of the global food crisis. A series of consultations with experts preceded this …

Indian diets are unhealthy: EAT-Lancet report

The report compared food consumption patterns in India with a reference diet from the EAT-Lancet Commission

In Brief

Zimbabwe orders troops to oversee crop collection

South Asia

National biodiversity plan admits India has failed to conserve biodiversity

Care turns down US $46 million food aid

Are Zimbabwe's economic problems exaggerated?

Drought in Ukraine affects grain exports

Eat Cameroonian: government

Bhutan’s experiments with happiness

The idyllic Buddhist kingdom believes that peace and happiness should take preference over material growth. In a world beset by inequities and …

Ensure piped water supply to residents near Union Carbide plant: monitoring committee to Bhopal municipality

Non-profits present high court committee with documents on extent of water and soil contamination

News 360° - Briefs

Arsenic attack on Chittagong

People in the port city depend on arsenic-contaminated groundwater in absence of safe water supply

South Asia

Riots over food security in Burkina Faso

Biofuel good idea, bad practice

Seeking Food Sovereignty